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Delphos

Delphos may refer to:* Delphos , the son of Apollo in Greek mythology; Delphi was named for him* Isle of Delphos, a former name for the island of Delos, mythological birth place of ApolloPlaces in the United States:* Delphos, California...

Delphus or Delphos was a son of Poseidon

Poseidon

Poseidon was the god of the sea, and, as "Earth-Shaker," of the earthquakes in Greek mythology. The name of the sea-god Nethuns in Etruscan was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon...

 and Melantho

Melantho

Melantho, also known as Melántho or Melanthó , is one of the minor characters in The Odyssey. Described as having a "sharp tongue", she is sister to Melanthios, a goatherd in Ithaca, and the daughter of Dolios...

, a daughter of Deucalion

Deucalion

In Greek mythology Deucalion was a son of Prometheus and Pronoia. The anger of Zeus was ignited by the hubris of the Pelasgians, and he decided to put an end to the Bronze Age. Lycaon, the king of Arcadia, had sacrificed a boy to Zeus, who was appalled by this savage offering...

, from whom the town of Delphi

Delphi

Delphi is both an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis.In Greek mythology, Delphi was the site of the Delphic oracle, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, and a major site for the worship of the god...

 was believed to have derived its name.

Delphus was also a son of Apollo

Apollo

Apollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in Greek and Roman mythology...

 by Celaeno

Celaeno

In Greek mythology, Celaeno referred to several different figures.*Celaeno, one of the Harpies, whom Aeneas encountered at Strophades. She gave him prophecies of his coming journeys.*Celaeno, one of the Pleiades...

, the daughter of Hyamus and granddaughter of Lycorus

Lycorus

In Greek mythology, Lycorus or Lycoreus was a son of Apollo and the nymph Corycia. After him a city was named Lycoreia .The name Lycoreus may also refer to:*A companion of Amycus....

, and, according to others, by Thyia

Thyia

According to a quotation from Hesiod's lost work Eoiae or Catalogue of Women, preserved in the De Thematibus of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, Thyia was the daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha and mother of Magnes and Makednos by Zeus.In the Delphic tradition, Thyia was also the naiad of a spring on...

, the daughter of Castalius

Castalius

Castalius is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. They are commonly known as pierrots. This name is also often used for the very closely related genus Tarucus....

, or by Melaina

Melaina

In Greek mythology, Melaina was a Corycian nymph, or member of the prophetic Thriae, of the springs of Delphi in Phocis, who was loved by Apollo bearing him Delphos. Her father was the local river-gods Kephisos, or Pleistos of northern Boeotia. Her name meant the black suggesting she presides over...

, the daughter of Cephissus. Tradition pointed to him also as the person from whom Delphi received its name lie is further said to have had a son, Pythis

Pythis

Pythius, also known as Pytheos or Pythis, was a Greek architect of the 4th century BCE. He built the Temple of Athena Polias cited by Vitruvius : "Pythius, the celebrated builder of the temple of Minerva at Priene"...

, who ruled over the country about mount Parnassus, and from whom the oracle received the name of Pytho.